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By making alliances with the old social classes and adopting the colonial bureaucratic structure, the new nations essentially vitiated the Third World agenda.
By making alliances with the old social classes and adopting the colonial bureaucratic structure, the new nations essentially vitiated the Third World agenda.
The two major companies, U.S. based Standard oil and British-based Mexican Eagle, were chary about the nationalist noises from Mexico City.
i always think "chary" just means "wary" and i guess it's not too far off
they had to be deposed by an alternative ruler or else a constitutional movement from below that traduced the posture of the Pentagon's modernization attempts.
Rather than modernization, we have "primitive accumulation" for a small circle of the ruler's family members.
Boumedienne had a vision of a "solicitous" state that tended to the needs of a respectful and quiescent population.